The federal human resources community suggests agencies change their approach to hiring. Rather than hedge their bets that USAJobs.gov will help them identify a diverse pool of qualified new applicants, hiring managers should constantly target specific groups of talented people, the Office of Personnel Management says.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said his agency is working to both strengthen the security around taxpayer information, while also allowing taxpayers access to their own data. And doing it on a smaller budget and with fewer IT experts.
Craig Lund, CEO of SecureAuth, makes the case for why agencies should move to advanced two-factor authentication more quickly.
David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, has spent some time digging into the Capitol Police Department's budget and found it's increased almost every year since 9/11 to $375 million this year. Hawkings tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the Capitol Police is among the biggest police agencies in America, but it has gotten relatively little oversight.
Former DoD personnel lead Brad Carson said his ideas will prevail and more change is coming for personnel issues.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said she is spending at least part of her last year in Congress advocating for more money for science and medical research, and for an overall pay raise for federal employees.
The White House sent its legislative proposal to Capitol Hill and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) plans on introducing legislation based on that proposal this week.
As the White House decides who should be the first federal chief information security officer, current and former federal cyber executives offer insights into what the role should look like.
Rep. Derek Kilmer is set to introduce a new bill that would change all references to E-Government administrator to the Federal CIO.
Robert Silvers becomes the first permanent assistant secretary for cyber policy at DHS in about a year.
Assuming the Army completes its planned drawdown to 450,000 active duty soldiers by the end of next year, the service will own and operate 21 percent more real estate and facilities than it can conceivably put to productive military use.
Roughly half of a congressionally appointed commission to reform the Veterans Affairs Department suggested an expansion of community care for veterans and a systematic closure of some VA medical facilities. The "strawman document" emerged as the VA pilots a few new programs to help veterans gain more control over their health care.
The Social Security Administration is pairing up with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure that social security benefit recipients over the age of 90 are, in fact, still alive.
Russ Deyo, DHS’ undersecretary for management, is holding each of the department’s components accountable for specific plans, milestones and approaches that focus on root causes of employee dissatisfaction.
Leaders of R&D components of DHS detailed technological projects and innovation processes at a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee budgetary hearing.